“Let me just clarify then: Are you suggesting that Canada’s Israel policy could leave young Canadian women in limbo?”
Pardy: “Yes.”
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Wait. This guy is a former high level official?
That. Is. Insane.
It reminded me of the old joke — “Earthquake in China: Terrible news, but is it bad for the Jews?” — except that nowadays the answer is invariably “Yes.”
I listened to the piece, thinking I would hear a note of incredulity in the reporter’s voice when she spoke the words you quoted, but she played it absolutely straight; just a request for clarification.
Garb Pardy, the Canadian ex-consular official being interviewed, seemed to take it for granted that (1) Canada is biased toward Israel, (2) between Israel and the Palestinian leaderships, Canada should be neutral, (3) that the Saudi notion of neutrality on that subject would be the same as the Canadian one, and (4) that the Saudis would be content with mere Canadian neutrality. To have spent long challenging this thinking would have derailed the talk show segment, but neither the interviewer, Anna Maria Tremonti, nor anyone else much, seems interested in pursuing that received wisdom.